riverine

comparative more riverine · superlative most riverine

1. literaryOf or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds.

   2017: We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution" by R. Alexander Pyron in the Washington Post When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake.

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   "Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).

   2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46

   The meeting – titled Amazon: Centre of the World – brought together hundreds of forest guardians and their supporters, including indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, riverine communities, quilombolas, environmental activists, academics, artists, Catholic bishops, nuns and European visitors from Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future.

   2019 November 18, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: fluvial